RevSys Blog

July 14th, 2015

Happy 10th Birthday Django!

Whew, what a conference! The talks were great, the venue was comfortable, and the BBQ was amazing. But that was only part of it. Many of the talks focused on the Django community and you could feel it in the room. We laughed from our bellies and teared up each time someone mentioned Malcolm.

I had the honor of giving the closing address, which was really just a thinly veiled way ...

June 17th, 2015

So as you may know, Django is turning 10 years old this summer and we’re throwing it a birthday party. It’s a one day tech conference and one day of sprints mere feet from where Adrian, Simon, Jacob, and Wilson toiled away on “the CMS”, as it was called then. That code became the first of a few amazing refreshes of Lawrence.com and the very first Django website.

May 29th, 2015

You write tests. Or at least you should be writing tests! A Jacob always says, "Code without tests is broken as designed".

Unfortunately you have to write a ton of boilerplate code to test even the simplest of things. This isn't true of just Django, but most languages and frameworks. There are lots of tools like Factory Boy and pytest that help, but we can do better.

April 29th, 2015

Now that the Wagtail CMS is gearing up for its 1.0 release, I wanted to take some time to introduce you to the all around best and most flexible Django CMS currently available. Wagtail has been around for a while, but doesn’t seem to get the attention I believe it deserves.

We’ve used Wagtail recently on a number of projects, and the overall experience has been great. It strikes the right balance ...